Category: 2011 Column

February 21, 2011 Let’s say you are looking at the checkbook and there is more month left than money. Been there? You have two weeks to go until your next paycheck, no money, and three bills that have to be paid. What do you do? If you are like most, you start to panic. You … Continue reading Looking for a less busy heart

February 15, 2011 I have taken five of my seven children with me to Africa. I took one to Ghana, and the other four went to Kenya in various years beginning in 2002. Judah and Susanna are next. When they go with me to Africa, however, it will not be their first experience on the … Continue reading It is better than Disney World

February 7, 2011 While on a mission trip in Colombia, South America, last week, I finished reading a book by David Platt called, “Radical.” Here’s one of the many stories Platt tells in the book that remind us of our God and his glory. “I was in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population … Continue reading It is time to get Radical in our love for Christ

February 1, 2011 In his book, “Outliers: The Story of Success,” Malcolm Gladwell writes that a common denominator in those who excel in their discipline is that they have spent more than 10,000 hours practicing it. I thought about that with regard to families who spend time reading the Bible and praying together. There is … Continue reading You can be an outlier, too

February 1, 2011 The two women met with the pastor for counseling, independently of one another, but with the same complaint. Each had one child, a teenage boy. Each had remote husbands, detached, not involved in the life of the family. Each woman came to the pastor with guns blaring, saying, “I can’t stand my … Continue reading Nothing better than a heart that is free